17 Mar
2012
17 Mar
'12
11:11 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
shows the 3.5" SS (9121) as being 16 x 256 so I
wonder what the 128
byte sector is, if anything
that I'm seeing
The HP drives keep some medium wear metadata on the disk, and eventually
are supposed to report to the system that the medium should be
replaced. I have a vague recollection that there's an extra sector for
that. Maybe that's the 128-byte sector you're seeing?